> LOS ANGELES TOY, DOLL & AMUSEMENTS MUSEUM
LATDA is a 501(c)3 non-profit museum. Our largest project to date was conceiving, pitching and delivering the first museum exhibition to explore the "art vinyl" or "urban vinyl" movement. It was a little show... only 6,000 square feet... which looked at this worldwide movement through the work of seven gifted California artists: Gary Baseman, Tim Biskup, David Gonzales, David Horvath+Sun-Min Kim, Brian McCarty and Mark Nagata.

> DAN KWONG
Dan is a performance artist, playwright, therapist, teacher and centerfielder based in Santa Monica. A man of the world in the best possible sense.

> MUSEUM OF NEON ART
MONA is another non-profit for whom I do web and printwork. Founded in 1981, the Museum of Neon Art exhibits fine art in electric and kinetic media; documents, preserves, restores and collects outstanding examples of neon signs; and educates about the cultural, historical, aesthetic and technical aspects of electric art. MONA acts as a catalyst for persons interested in exploring, enjoying and producing artwork which uses light and/or motion as its expressive language. The Museum of Neon Art’s NEON CRUISE is a unique MONA program... you ride around in an open-topped British double-decker bus touring neon hotspots throughout the city. Did you know the first neon sign in America was erected in Los Angeles?

> MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART SAN DIEGO WEB STORE
I designed and launched this Yahoo! store to reflect the website existing at that time (both have since undergone some drastic changes so the link above is dead because the current site no longer reflects my work or design philosophy). I shot many of the original photos for the launch. I realized that putting together a webstore was best suited to a team; fortunately, Maria Kwong was the project manager and handled much of the detail work. I should mention that we inherited not only the design but a big...white...X. When a client is so self destructive that their outside design firm can't talk them out of making a big mistake, what're ya gonna do? Take the money and give up.

> MANZANARSTORE.COM
It almost never happens: the perfect client finds their perfect designer. A Yahoo! store with a retro feel, pithy materia, and above all: good hearted, learned, and intelligent people to work with. I've come full circle with this job, combining illustrative elements and type treatments not trotted out since my Westways days. Once again, I had to relearn Yahoo! store building from the ground up, with quite a bit of help from Istvan Siposs's books and Maria Kwong's consulting work. One caveat about Yahoo!: their web hosting pretty much sucks. The Yahoo! store seems to be a platform of choice, however, and it's not hosted on the same kind of ill-maintained server farm that their web hosting is. I mention this because the landing page is currently sitting on a Yahoo! web hosting site, and I don't have confidence in it at all. This will be changed at some point.

> BIKEWITHBILL.COM
Bill's idea is simple and audacious, and I think it answers a timely question: where does one start learning how to commute by bicycle, even in winter, even in Minnesota? Bill Delano says: hire a consultant. (Expect that to change.) Bill maps and rides the route twice, once by himself and once with you. Along the way he suggests equipment and gear, instructs on safety and courtesy, and gets you started on your merry way. A colleague of one of the clients suggested Squarespace.com as a platform for publishing this site and blog, and after checking it out was pretty impressed. I found Squarespace to be the first functional WYSIWYG design tool I've used. The world is migrating to CSS; if tools like this are the result, there's hope for us all.